Past and Ongoing Guest Teaching Posts in Theatre and Music (1970-2013)

 

2011-2012 Consultant and lecturer, Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier

 

1982-2014 Regular guest workshop director at the London, Birmingham and Manchester Actors’ Professional Centres

 

1986-2006 3 times Dorothy F. Schmidt Chair Emeritus in Theatre, Florida Atlantic University

 

1996-2007  Various ongoing senior management training consultancies to Industry (e.g. Boots Pharmaceuticals, Tate & Lyle, Schroder Ventures, J.M. & A., Granada TV)

 

1986-2008 Director of various courses at the annual BADA Midsummer in Oxford Programme, Balliol College, Oxford

 

1998 Lecturer in Restoration Theatre/Acting Styles, Florida State University Professional Programme, London

 

1998/9 Lecturer, Acting Styles/Shakespeare, British American Drama Academy, London

 

1996-2002 Shakespeare Tutor, Marymount programme (American Drama conservatories), London

 

1997 Delivered the British Association of Head Librarians Annual Lecture (subject: “Abridging and Recording Classics for Audio Books”)

 

1992-1996 Occasional tutor, Audition Technique, Webber Douglas School of Drama

 

1989/90 Dean of BADA (British/American Drama Academy, London)

 

1986-1987 Consultant to the Missouri Schools Theatre Program

 

1986-1987 Founder Director of the Shakespeare on Stage (SOS) pilot scheme (still operating in 1998) in Kansas City, for Young Audiences Inc, NY

 

1986-1987 Dorothy F. Schmidt Chair Emeritus (first time), Florida Atlantic University

 

1982-1986 Shakespeare/text/acting tutor, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) (distinguished ex-students include Ralph Fiennes, Alex Kingston, Imogen Stubbs, Iain Glenn, Jane Horrocks, Clive Owen, Joely Richardson)

 

1981 Visiting Professor of English at Univ. of Rochester, N.Y. 1981 Guest Head of Opera Department at Eastman School of Music (conservatory), N.Y.

 

1978-1986 Consultancy in Drama Studies, Salford University

 

1981-1996 Examiner in Classical Guitar, Guildhall School of Music & Drama

 

1980-1996 Workshop director for the Poetry Society of Great Britain and the W.H. Smith “Poets in Schools” scheme

 

1979 Honorary Fellow in Theatre Studies, Lancaster University

 

1978 Visiting tutor (Drama), City Literary Institute

 

1977-1984 RSC “Actor in Residence” for approx. 60 American universities; 1- or 2-week residencies as member of Royal Shakespeare Company (prior to the organisation’s re-naming as ACTER)

 

1970-1975  In-Service course director (Music) for London Borough of Ealing; peripatetic appointments as Classical Guitar Tutor at various schools and Teachers’ Training Colleges in West London (Richmond, Ealing and Hounslow)

 

1974 Head of Music Department, Thomas Huxley Teachers’ Training College (subsequently W. London Inst. of Education)

 

1973 Principal, The Hounslow Guitar School, Isleworth Polytechnic, London

 

Honours:

 

Honorary Citizen of Austin, Texas (1979)

 

Hon. Temp. Fellow of Theatre Studies, Lancaster University (1979)

 

Dorothy F. Schmidt Chair Emeritus, Theatre, Florida Atlantic University (1987, 1998, 2005/6; previous incumbents: Edward Albee, Joshua Logan, Zoe Caldwell, Olympia Dukakis)

 

Professional Qualifications:

 

AGSM (Performance) Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, 1968

 

AGSM (Teaching) Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, 1969

 

Published work includes:

 

THEATRICAL LETTERS (foreword by Sir John Gielgud) publ. UK, USA, Canada Marginalia 1995; ISBN 1874572 119; various commissioned scripts and screenplays (e.g. THE TRIAL for the Young Vic, London), record sleeve notes and some published poetry